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What can we learn about careers from watching Donald Trump and The Apprentice?

1. Recognize that job tests don't always correspond to job realities.

Hundreds of companies screen candidates through psychological tests, stress

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

interviews, group interviews, role-playing and a whole lot more. Do these tests make sense?

* Martin Seligman found that optimism often outweighed raw sales talent when he tested Metropolitan Life sales representatives.

* Law

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

yers tell me that law school tests have little relation to what they do on a day-to-day basis, especially if they're litigating or negotiating.

* And most of us would agree: The way we act during an interview or role play does

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

't predict how we'll survive and thrive on a day-to-day basis.

So we can't fault Donald Trump for creating elaborate scenarios that force candidates into roles they'll never need once they're safely inside real boardrooms.

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

2. Prepare to confront sexism in the 21st century.

Critics -- and Caroline --may raise their eyebrows when women use sex to sell. Season 1 brought overt flirting and short short skirts. Season 2 brought Ivana Ma, who will unfo

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

tunately be remembered for downloading her skirt to reveal some flowered bikini something or other.

But let's face it, folks. Who chose these contestants?

Twenty-something women wear tank tops and short skirts -- no big deal,

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

they would say. They mostly have long straight hair and they're above- average attractive. Trump regularly brings up gender issues -- even dividing teams along male vs. female lines -- and obviously has an eye for the ladies.

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

He's another generation.

But even the young men on the show aren't immune. Discussing the magnificently blond Jennifer, one young man summarizes: she's a lawyer, she's smart -- and she's beautiful.

Season 1 introduced a coupl

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

e of men who weren't GQ material. One was sort of a teddy bear, the other a cold fish who tried to overcompensate during the task. When will we see a blunt-speaking, slightly overweight woman with glasses?

3. Choose environm

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

nts where you'll shine and stay away from situations that bring out your worst side.

It's easy to criticize the Apprentice candidates. After all, they're supposed to be the best and the brightest.

But lots of bright business

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

whiz kids don't want to take three months off from their lives and their businesses. Riding around in Trump limousines can be fun, but they'd rather start working to buy their own fleet, thank you very much!

Who wants to sle

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ep three feet away from the competition in a crowded loft, while cameras show you sleeping, eating and brushing your teeth? Not everyone can handle this type of living arrangement and the resulting pressure.

What's amazing i

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

not that these candidates seem rather weak, but that candidates of this caliber showed up at all.

4. Keep your cool, no matter what.

Trump -- and most of life -- rewards people who can promote themselves professionally. Emot

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ions and cat-fighting don't cut it, here or anywhere. In my opinion, Ivana's conduct in the boardroom was worse than her street scandal. Instead of promoting her own qualities, she turned on fellow contestant Jennifer -- who

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

asn't even present.

They could all take a lesson from Season 1's Bill Rancic, who never raised his voice and yet managed to put forth his own case, powerfully and calmly.

5. Expect some smoke and mirrors.

Sure, reality telev

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

ision isn't very realistic. Each episode ends with a cab ride -- to a Manhattan hotel, where contestants hole up till the taping ends and the "losers" no longer have to hide their identity. (Hopefully they get single rooms!)

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ome Boardroom episodes reportedly have taped voice-overs of Donald Trump.

Real companies don't send executives out to the street to hawk candy bars or lemonade. Their executives get more than a few days to create advertising

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

campaigns.

But real companies operate with smoke and mirrors, too. They place ads for positions when they have a a pretty good idea who they'll be hiring. They have agendas: sometimes people are set up to lose. And they par

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

icipate in staged dramatic scenes.

A Fortune 50 VP (now retired) once told me about a tough labor negotiation. "The union leader and I agreed on our position in the afternoon. We announced we'd be negotiating all night. I slep

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

t in my office; he slept in the conference room. The next morning, we emerged, claiming a hard-won compromise."

Not so different from reality television, is it?

I offer one-to-one consultations on career and business strategy

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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